Power Probe BOB (OBD 2 Breakout Box)

hey guys welcome back I wanted to talk to you guys today about something that I recently got in the mail from power probe they sent this thing to me to check and try out and there's really cool of them and we're gonna get started here and take a look at what we got it's a breakout box for the obd2 connector now I already have one this one here I picked up just to have something while I was waiting to pick up a better one okay I wanted somethings better than nothing and I have used it and it does work alright it gives you a display of voltage this and that you have all of your pins here hooked up with a banana jack setup okay so you can take your you can take your scope leads and if you want to you can just simply plug in to whatever pins that you need to check okay now as I said this thing does work but it's extremely cheap I don't trust it 100% I don't trust cheap tools for the price I figured I'd try it out okay but my plan was I was trying to decide which which name-brand that I wanted to go with and obviously there's a lot of them out there there's you know if the top my head OTC AES we've if I think makes one picot I saw this and I it really it actually just piqued my interest because it has some pretty nifty features on it first of all show you a view of the tool let me try to turn it the right way right side up now if you notice I'm just using this one as comparison but if you notice this does not have banana Jack's okay this has this has small terminals which is able to keep the size of the tool I guess down you know a lot more alright and you can see here everything is nice and lay it has LEDs on each on each one of these breakout pins the other thing that it comes with is these these are these are magnetic actually and they have cutouts on them as you could see that notches so that you can just pop them together depending I guess what you wanted to do here I have not messed with these but these are designed the size of these tools are actually designed to fit inside here now you can simply probe this way all right you can just stick it in here and it's it's gonna make contact or if you want you can actually push it in and the terminal will I mean it's it fits nice and tight it's actually a you know pin retention in there so that's the basics of the tool okay it comes with two of these magnetic style pin probes I do not know where you can buy these I had asked power probe when I was speaking on the phone with them about these probes and they said they get questions all the time they do not manufacture these so these are not available separately to my knowledge however there is one catch here that may be the key if you take a look here how a probe Europe this is this is not made here this is made for power probe I guess you know in Europe so it's not made here now I'm gonna plug this in to the obd2 connector on this fiat trying to set you guys up here so all right we'll just go over some of the features I'm not diagnosing this car my partner beat me to that already he fixed it yesterday so there's nothing to diagnose I don't know I'm looking through the screen here and I don't know why it looks like they're the the the display is erratic it's not okay that is something with the camera and I don't know if that's gonna come through on the video like that or not but this is completely stable it's a great image there's no there's no distortion but for some reason the camera is showing that there is I don't know why anyway as you can see here we have our LEDs to display what you know green red the orange warning LED here these are all in the instructions by the way guys okay so we have to we have to look through here on the instructions on what exactly is going on I'm gonna actually plug in my hotel scanner here as well and as you can see I am powering up okay so it's working through the through the box here let me zoom out a little bit one of the features on this thing which is really cool is the display all right it gives you the voltage but it also gives you the pin so if you look here you can you can press pin one and it'll tell you if there's voltage on it 10 - pin 3 and I can go so on and so forth ok so another thing here besides besides being able to go through these pins okay this will also give you low voltage high voltage warnings now if i reset i have to press reset i forgot that to get back to pin 16 okay so i press reset and it will give me back to to this pin now if you notice I have no I have no key on in this vehicle I'm going to turn the key on oh my god I'm gonna shut that off what is that oh sorry oops anyway alright now we have all kinds of craziness going on alright so let's now go through our pins again pin one three point nine volts pin 6 3 point 6 volts pin 9 5 volts go through 240 net I missed it 15 6 let's go back to point 6 alright and reset I'll go back to my my pin 16 I'm gonna start this thing [Music] and as you can see we're all 14 volts now I can probe I don't have well you know what I do have this I could use my meter I don't have my scope here I'll just use the meter and I'm gonna use the pins that they gave us with my meter and I'm gonna go into my chassis ground and then I'm going to go I'll go into I can't low which is pin 14 I'll check it here and see what I got 2 point 6 volts my meters showing 2.25 so it's averaging all right go to pin 16 as you can see 14 volts and as I said you do not have to lock these terminals in all you got to do is lay them in to the pin just make contact obviously if you're worried about it moving you can put them in stabilize them and they'll hold just fine as you saw before this tool is really really fantastic in my opinion I did not measure I'll see if I have a moment to do that and I will check some of the other back probes that I have to see if they fit but getting probes that'll work on this I do not see as a problem ok some of the gyro guys probably already have these and if you're out there and you're watching this give us a source to purchase more of them they're really nice now there's not a whole lot here that I can do right now with this except for what I've shown you the tool itself I really like a lot I like the footprint it's a small it's a small footprint for one of these tools from what I've seen at least from what I've seen the the setup on it is really nice it's very very clear the display the instructions are very clear about how it works what you know what you'd have to be looking for here it will it'll also give you audible I don't know if I mention that it'll give you slow beeps for anything below eleven point eight volts on a twelve volt system this will also work on a 24 volt system you guys 23 point 6 volts it'll give you a low voltage warning and it'll give you fast beeps above 15 and a half volts or 31 volts so it gives you a low or high voltage warning okay they give you each set of pins here and what color LEDs you can look what you would be looking for and what it means okay so if you read through this red color means constant voltage present on these pins blue color normal protocol communication pulse signal alright depending on the communication protocol that is going to make a difference on the which LEDs are going to blink obviously so once you become familiarized with the with the instruction manual mmm the tool will be very very much self-explanatory as long as you have the corresponding diagram you know for your particular year make and model vehicle now again this thing the display on this thing is fantastic it's very very considered very very clear and easy to see power probe has made a beautiful beautiful breakout box for the obd2 connector I have not seen a lot of guys using this and I don't know if that's simply because it's not marketed or pushed or anything I'm not really sure and I do not know for you guys that are gonna ask me I do not know what the retail price is on this on this item I do know that you don't see them you don't see them often I checked a couple places before I called power probe directly and I was looking to buy it and they were out of stock everywhere that I tried so I'm not 100% sure my advice is if you are interested in buying this tool call power probe direct and have have a talk with them guys over there they're very very nice guys to deal with and see what see if they have any more in stock and any questions you can I will refer you to them guys because I cannot answer a whole lot about this tool the only thing I can say is that I have not had the opportunity to use it in diagnostic testing yet unfortunately but this thing is this thing has some awesome little it just has some really really nice characteristics I love the the fact that you can change what pin you're looking for right on the display and you can get an idea of you know right where you're at right off the jump so that's really really nice if you guys remember I did a car a while back that had a class to date online I believe that was stuck at seven volts so if I would have had this tool instead and I would have gone to the corresponding pin for the class to data I would have saw that it was at seven volts okay just very very very useful tool to have in my opinion and I like the fact that it has the pin retention system in here instead of having banana jacks because you do not you do not have as much bulk all right some of you guys are not gonna like this some of you guys are going to like the banana jacks because that's what you prefer that's fine I'm not telling you you have to go and you know and buy something you don't like I'm just saying for me personally I wasn't sure about this at first I really liked it the the probes that it comes with just fits only so incredibly well and I really hope some of you guys out there do know a source to buy more of these because I definitely want to buy some more I don't know what else to really say about the tool it's really nice I like it they sent it to me to try it out and get my opinion and I I mean you know me guys I'm not gonna lie about it if I didn't like it I just wanted done a video on it I like this thing I did not like I said I didn't get a chance to use it for diagnostic testing I only played around with it just like I did here on camera to show you know to show you guys I did the same thing when I got it to try it out and see how it functions and how it looks and it's it's a fantastic tool and you know I personally think for me at least that I think for me at least that it's you know the only one I'm going to need the power probe is definitely the way I'm going to I'm gonna stay for now I don't see any need for any other ones so I hope you guys liked the video when I have a chance to use this thing in the diagnostic test environment I will use it I will do a video on it right now I do not have anything that needs that this has this Fiat behind me here had an SRS light that was on and it had some some lighting issues which is nothing new on these cars they melt everything so that was that we fixed the SRS problem which is a broken broken pigtail under the seat fixed the lighting issues and that's really it so alright guys I appreciate it again thanks for watching hope you enjoy the video thumbs up subscribe and stay tuned for more have a good one

Channel: Joe's Auto Electric

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Id: 2ngG1Eglgnk

Length: 15min 39sec (939 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 22 2020